Celebrity Quotes of the Week: Tamar Braxton Has Issues With Rihanna Being Labeled 'R&B'
Plus, words from 50 Cent, Tyrese and Eminem.
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Tamar Braxton has a problem with Rihanna being nominated in R&B categories at the Grammys: - “I had an issue with Rihanna being nominated at the Grammys for Best R&B Album. She doesn’t sing R&B music. She is a pop star... It’s called Rhythm and Blues. Ribs and Barbecue. It’s not twerk music. It’s soulful. That’s R&B music. Every song of [Rihanna’s] that I’ve got my complete and utter life to has been (while) twerking. I love her and I’m one of her biggest fans period, but that’s not R&B music.”(Photos from left: Alberto Rodriguez/BET/Getty Images for BET, TS, PacificCoastNews)
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Porsha Williams has a new boo in NFL star Duke Williams and she wants the world to know: - "His last name is Williams and then my last name is Williams. Everybody thought that it meant that we were like family members, and I don’t think he thought that was going to be the reaction. He ended up getting my phone and posting his picture with a heart. I was like, 'Ahhhh,' because I had never been public like that.”(Photo: Paras Griffin/Getty Images for Warner Bros)
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Tami Roman opens up about suffering a mild heart attack: - “There are levels to heart attacks. I had a mini heart attack, and it was due to diet and smoking. I’m also diabetic.”(Photo: Jerod Harris/Getty Images for WE tv)
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50 Cent says he was inspired by several boxers for his role in Southpaw. Just not Floyd Mayweather, Jr.: - "Not particularly Floyd [Mayweather] because he’s so talented that he never really puts control in anyone else’s hands, but a lot of other fighters that I’ve interacted with have very similar traits to the Billy Hope character and it’s so real, that portion of it, because they’ll secure the things that they want to be around by saying ‘Here, you do it.’"(Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
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Jake Gyllenhall says boxing is all about instinct: - “The thing I learned about boxing and the thing I think that’s amazing is the training of instinct... [It] takes a certain type of sensitivity and being able to listen to your opponent and being able to read your opponent is more important and ultimately the thing that helps you win over your own anger or over your own animal instinct."(Photo: Theo Wargo/NBC/Getty Images for "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon")
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Method Man tips his hat to Kendrick Lamar for being a leader in hip hop: - "I'm going to change my whole vernacular right now. I like'ed that. I met Kendrick before, he's a cool, little dude. He's focused. Smart. I like that. He's like what Public Enemy was to us ... Kendrick he's definitely got his thumb on the pulse of Black culture.”(Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
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Eminem says the Internet sometimes makes him suicidal: - "Once I’m on the computer, it’s over, because I’m tempted to look at everything. I went on the computer recently and got on one site, read five comments and was like, 'Man.' I have friends that do it — rapper friends. I’m like, 'I don’t know how you do that.' Because you end up wanting to fight someone, kill them, or kill yourself — usually all three at once.”(Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
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Through his pneumonia diagnosis, Scarface learned the hard way that he needed to slow down: - “I was really doing bad out on that road, man. Eating truck stop food. I put on like 10 pounds. It's just God's way of telling me, and my body's way, that I need to slow down and really get myself back together before I even consider going back on the road with the Geto Boys again.” (Photo: Bob Levey/Getty Images for UrbanDaddy)
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Tyrese uses Sam Smith as an example of favoritism in contemporary R&B music: - "I had a song called 'Stay.' 'Stay' was No. 1 for 11 weeks on Billboard. Sam Smith had a song called 'Stay.' Sam Smith's song had a full choir on it. [His] record was played on all formats of radio. Top 40, rhythmic, crossover and urban. Now, Sam Smith ain't stepped foot into any of these urban radio stations but yet, urban radio is going all out supporting it.”(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images for BET)
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Rachel Dolezal is struggling to make ends meet: - “I’ve got to figure it out before August 1, because my last paycheck was like $1,800 in June. [I lost] friends and the jobs and the work and — oh, my God — so much at the same time.”(Photo: 247PAPS.TV / Splash News)
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